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Turducken - turkey stuffed with chicken stuffed with duck has now been topped by a 10 bird combo.

The ten-bird roast is being championed by celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who has deemed it "one of the most spectacular and delicious roasts you can lay before your loved ones at Yuletide".

The turkey is stuffed with a goose, duck, mallard, guinea fowl, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon and woodcock.

However the roast, which weighs 22lb when cooked, contains around 10,000 calories, compared to the 3,000 calories of the average turkey. It also carries a hefty £160 price tag and takes over nine hours to prepare and cook.

Yesterday Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall said: "It is the perfect dish as it has the benefit of offering the two favourite Christmas birds together.

"And once you've taken the decision to do that, you may as well take it one step further and add some others.

"This is a spectacular and celebratory dish and it's the time of year when people have a lot of time on their hands to prepare something like this.

"It is worth it because it is absolutely delicious."

The roast feeds around 30 people and as well as the ten birds, also includes stuffing made from 2lb of sausage meat and half a pound of streaky bacon along with sage, port and red wine.